Pressing buck



oct. 27, 1931. A, o. LONG @529,566

PRESSING BUCK Filed Feb. 18. 1929 d a u ATTORNEY Patented Oct. 27, 1931 PATENT OFFICE ARCHIE O. LONG, OF KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI PRESSING- BUCK l Application filed February 18, 1929. Serial No. 340,886.

My invention relates to presses and more particularly to pressing heads and padded frames adapted for pressing the yokes, cuis and similar portions of shirts and normally supported and operated by well-known press mechanism used in laundries, the principal objects of the invention being to adapt a press for pressing a plurality of portions of a garment and particularly to adapt a pressing head and a complementary frame for receiving and efhciently pressing the yoke and cuff of a shirt and the portion of the shirt sleeve to which the culip is attached.

In ordinary laundry presses a separate press is provided for each class of operation, for example presses being adapted by suitable frames and heads for respectively pressing cuffs, yokes, collar bands, and sleeves.

When the functions of several presses have been combined in one, the result has ordinarily been the mounting of several different forms of heads and frames on a single pedestal for operation by single operating means, so that the several portions of a garment may be pressed coincidentally in one operation of the machine. Heretofore, therefore, separate padded fra-mes and pressing heads have been required for each portion of the garment, the economy of assembling a group of heads and frames residing in the reduction of operations by the mechanism.

An object of my invention therefore is to adapt a single combination of pressing head and padded frame for pressing a plurality of yitems separately or coincidentally, for reducing the number of pieces of equipment in a laundry, the space occupied by equipment, and the expense of installingand operating the same and whereby the number of operabe pressed may be minimized and the quality ofthe work enhanced.

In accomplishingthese and other objects of the invention, I have provided improved details of structure, vthe preferred forms of which are illustratedfin the accompanying drawings, wherein :v A

Fig.` 1 is a front elevation of a laundry press embodying my invention.

Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the press, the

tions for installing garments in position tol pressing head and guide for the vertically slidable buck being shown in section.

Fig. 3 is a perspective view of the buck and pressing head shown in vertically aligned and spaced relation.

Fig. 4 is a longitudinal vertical section similar to the view in Fig. 2 of the pressin head, buck and guide illustrating in dotte lines the horizontally adjustable position of the slide for installing garments to be pressed.

Referring in detail to the drawings:

1 designates generally a support comprising a pedestal 2 having spaced vertical arms 3 for supporting a hollow heating head 4: in- 65 Cluding a transverse member 5 and arch member 6 through which steam may be passed.

A vertical pressure shaft 7 operable by treadles 8 and 9 supports a buck 10 including spaced arms 11 and 12 connected at the 7@ top by a slide-receiving dome 13, and a padding frame 14 is mounted on a slide rod V15 slidably mounted in bearing openings 16 in the arms 11 and 12. rIhe bucl; is guided in vertical movement by the lower steam chest. A saddle-like padding support or slide 17 is mounted on the frame 14;, and has a portion 18 (Fig. 4 only) extending forwardly from the frame and slidable over the dome 13 when the frame is moved horizontally toward and away from the buck.

The frame is moved toward the buck to bring the padding slide 17 into registry with the upper steam chest by means of the handle 19 on the rod 15, and is restored to outwardly S5 spaced position by a spring 2O anchored to a table 21 projecting from the pedestal, and operating on a lever 22 pivotally connected to the rod at 23 and slidably engaging in a grooved bracket 24 extending from the pedes- 90 tal.

The pressure shaft may be actuated by steam pressure controlled by the treadles.

The pedestal, lower steam chest, padding frame, buck and operating means are commonly found in laundry pressing machines, my invention consisting in the padding support and upper steam chest which will now be particularly described.

Padding material 25 conforming to the 199 Y elongated wings 29 diverging downwardly tion and normalshape for pressing-the yoke I ."a's illustratedin 2, wherein the shirt. is 520 the Shirt.

further has a forwardly downwardly extendand'having an arcuate shoulder 30 extending rearwardlywhereby .the yoke of a shirt may be positioned on said portion with vthe neck band of-Itheshirt resting on the shoulder, the shirt thus being extended in horizontal posishown in dotted lines. Theyokeportion 26 ingY rear edge '31 `toreceive the shoulders of The intermediate portion 27 of the `padding bed is adapted to pressing acuti, and

includes 'downwardly diverging wings extending 1n the lsame plane as the wingsk of y the yoke portion and having lengths substantially equal to the length of a cuff, the lower p edge- 33 ofthe portion being therefore inset fromy the lower edgeof the yoke .portion thefcuf .portion to provide a vertical edge 34 with which the sleeve-attached edge of a .cuff may register as killustrated in ldotted lines in Fig' and the front portion 28 ofthe bed extends in the plane of the cuff 'and yoke portions, its wings being abbreviated and having tapering lower: edges 35, whereby the vplacket and cylindrical portionof the sleeve may extend within the diverging planes of the portion 28 to avoid the stretching of the 'sleeve which would benecessary if the bed were continued forwardly without incutting fromthe cuff portion, and to permitthe cuff to be spread on the cu'f portionvof the bed.

I form the upper steam chest complementarily to the padding bed, having a rear portion 36 adapted toV cooperate and overliethepadded rear portion ofthe frame, an intermediate portion 37, Vand aforward portion 38 Vto cooperate respectively withk the cuff andfront portions of the Ipadding bed.

It is to be understood that the padding support is provided as' described for the bed, and the padding is adapted to t upon the support.

The device being provided asdescribed, the yoke -of a shirt may be etliciently pressed,'an d the shirt may then yberepositioned in the same press, with the cuff on the padding bed for pressing .against the steam. chest, whereby removal of theshirt to another press or bed for pressing the cuff is obviated, and a substantial Savin g of time and equipment is effected.

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l. In a laundry press, a pedestal, aframe `movable on the pedestal and adapted to support a padded bed, said padded bed having a rear portion comprising downwardly diverging elongated wings' v adapted to receive'the yoke of a shirt, an intermediate portioncomi-prising shortened arms adapted to receive a cuff, and a front portion having arms shorter than the arms of said intermediate portion to i provide a front vertical edge on said intermediate portion with which the sleeve-'ati tached edge ofva cuff isadapted y,to register,

the front portion being adaptedfor pressing the portion of the sleeveto which the cuff is attached, and abcd-receiving head having portions 'complementary to said portions `of the padded bed. l y

n 2. 'In a laundry press, a pedestal, and a movable frame for supporting apadded bed,

V Y y I I. said ,padded bed including a rear member `vThe padding bed is inout forwardly fromV having downwardly diverging elongated wings provided with arcuate shoulders at the I ysufficiently to conform subsantially to the lolfset front edge portions of. said head.

Adevic'e of the character described including a padded bed comprising downwardly diverging wings having vertical rear edges provided with inclined shoulders at .the upvperends of saidedges. k; l

y5. VA .deviceof thel character described including a padded bed havingV downwardly diverging outer faces and a rear` edge including Yar 'downwardly forwardly inclined por tion, and ahead including a portion having a rear edge conforming substantially to said inclined portion of said paddedV bed edge.

6. In a device of the character described, a bed having diverging-side facesincluding a forwardly projecting front end portion having backwardly andV downwardly,A inclined lower edges and a portion having a front edge with which the sleeve attached edge of a cu is adapted to register spaced rearwardly from the front edge of the front end portion, and a head having side faces conforming to and of sufhcient extent to cover said bed faces and including a front portion having side faces of suflicientlength to cover said front end portion of the bed and having lower edges extending to the lower edges of the front end portion of the bed.

In testimony whereof I aiix my signature.

ARCHIE O. LONG. 

